Catalogue information

LastDodo number
6459201
Area
Tokens / Medals
Title
USA The Worst Nuclear Accident in U.S. History 1979
Publisher
Value
Year
1979
Collection / set
Material
Weight
Variety / overstrike
Obverse
The Worst Nuclear Accident in U.S. History THREE MILE ISLAND POWER PLANT - Middletown, PA March 8, 1979
Reverse
(skull)
Privy mark
Mint mark
Designer
Engraver
Dimensions / Diameter
25
Number
Details
The Three Mile Island nuclear accident, in Middletown, PA (USA) was perhaps the world's worst, until Chernobyl. The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 in the No.4 light water graphite moderated reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, in what was then part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet